Moonrise Preparation # 1

I finally saw Bottle Rocket, Wes Anderson's first film. It delivered. Raw and full of Wes-Anderson-gorgeousness. Owen and Luke Wilson look so young! After delving into the history behind this movie I found out that Bottle Rocket was originally a black and white short film shown at the Sundance Festival. 

I am now on the hunt for the sound track featuring Chet Baker, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and the Vincent Guaraldi Trio's "Happiness Is". (source for music and image from: www.wired.com). 

Needless to say the countdown is on for Moonrise Kingdom...

Time for a Winter Workout

Along with the Pinot being poured this winter I am selecting some books to wile away the weekends.
I just picked up a second hand copy of Jane Fonda's Workout Book.

I'll admit that I gravitated to the orange cover with gold embossed spine. It also satisfied my eighties dance wear fascination...time to get the leg warmers out!

I particularly love the section on what music Jane recommends for the work out: "When I travel and can't carry records or there's no stereo, I just bring my tape and a small tape recorder and I'm all set".

Ohhhh I am starting to reminisce about tape decks and winding the tape back through the holes with a ball point pen when it would get stuck.

At the beginning of each chapter Jane has a song list for each section and the music is classic early 80s fodder: Donna Summer, Irene Cara (Fame!), Box Scaggs... even the London Symphony Orchestra's "Theme from Star Wars"... 

The nice thing though is discovering music I have never heard of - songs by Kara Bonoff and Judy Collins. I have a particular soft spot for this album cover of Kara Bonoff's from lyricspond.com.

It's all very Kate Bush meets Sarah Moon - particularly feeling the hair comb too. 

Girls, Girls, Girls

The winter weather has hit and I've bunkered down so to speak in a warm cocoon of "Downton Abbey" and oil painting. I am working on a portrait but oh the nose, oh the nose - it's hard to paint a good nose! I am looking at eventually having a wall of paintings a-la-young-Richie Tenenbaum. Richie had a wall dedicated to portraits of his adopted sister Margot.

Source: frecklesandash.blogspot.com.au/2010_08_01_archive.html

I've also just discovered the new HBO show "Girls" (created by and starring Lena Dunham, executive produced by Judd Apatow). 


Besides having a huge style crush on the character Jessa's wardrobe it's well written and very realistic - almost achingly so. "Girls" is pretty irresistible and the source of a lot of debate in the U.S as indicated in this article from New York Magazine.
http://nymag.com/arts/tv/features/girls-lena-dunham-2012-4/

I particularly like the New York Magazines fashion snap shot of the show: 
http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2012/04/girls-fashion-recap-getting-to-know-them.html#photo=10x00006

Jemima Kirke as "Jessa" - source: hollywoodcrush.mtv.com/2012/04/12/hbo-girls-jemima-kirke/

source: http://www.possessionista.com/2012/05/girls-fashion-jessas-pants.html

I think Jessa will soon be in hot competition with Carrie Bradshaw (particularly like her style in the "Aiden" era). Interestingly, Jemima Kirke, a professional artist who plays the role of Jessa, is the daughter of Lorraine Kirke, the owner of Geminola, a N.Y vintage boutique that was the source of a number of outfits for Sex and the City. Six degrees of vintage separation... I like that. 

Off to watch some more episodes courtesy of iTunes. :)